Twitter hacked by 'Iranian Cyber Army'

Fri, 12/18/2009 - 22:05 EDT - France24.com - Business

Popular microblogging site Twitter was briefly shut down overnight, its home page replaced with an image claiming the site had been hacked by the "Iranian Cyber Army."The website's official blog acknowledged the disruption but gave no details as to how the site had been disrupted and who was responsible."As we tweeted a bit ago, Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed," the site's co-founder Biz Stone wrote on the blog."We will update with more information and details once we've investigated more fully," he added.

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Popular microblogging site Twitter was briefly shut down overnight, its home page replaced with an image claiming the site had been hacked by the "Iranian Cyber Army."The website's official blog acknowledged the disruption but gave no details as to how the site had been disrupted and who was responsible."As we tweeted a bit ago, Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed," the site's co-founder Biz Stone wrote on the blog."We will update with more information and details once we've investigated more fully," he added.

Popular microblogging site Twitter was briefly shut down overnight, its home page replaced with an image claiming the site had been hacked by the "Iranian Cyber Army."The website's official blog acknowledged the disruption but gave no details as to how the site had been disrupted and who was responsible."As we tweeted a bit ago, Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed," the site's co-founder Biz Stone wrote on the blog."We will update with more information and details once we've investigated more fully," he added.

Several news websites, including CBC News, have been hacked by a group thought to be the Syrian Electronic Army.
The hack resulting in a pop-up on our site has been fixed. You may still see the pop-up as the fix takes time to propagate through DNS. ^jb

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